Russia's drone attack: Why China could try it next
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This was a deliberate, premeditated taunt. As the admiral said to Alec Baldwin’s character in "The Hunt for Red October," "The Russians don’t do anything without a plan."
Rebecca Grant is president of IRIS Independent Research.
Somebody on the Russian side thought this through. Russian combat aviation relies on centralized ground control for radar intercepts of other aircraft. This was not a spur-of-the-moment jaunt by those Su-27 pilots. This was a deliberate, premeditated taunt by Russia.
I think the Russians watched the flight patterns of the MQ-9 Reapers off and on for weeks, maybe months, before planning this foolish operation.
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